Kaban ni D_BystandeR; NGANONG DUGAY MAN???
I tried to analyze the recent controversy involving the long time debt of the city government which has elicited no less a ruling from the Supreme Court that ordered the city to pay the Rallos heirs for a piece of land in Sambag I which the city converted to become a road. The transaction if I remember right, spanned for a period of more than half a century and this is quite long enough. The SC ruling in year 2000 is more than a decade ago. I wonder what kind of people do we have in the person of Mike Rama and Edgardo Labella who are both Team Rama candidates for mayor and vice mayor of Cebu City. We have known people who refused to pay a valid and legitimate debt and in the idiomatic parlance of old we call them, "Mal Pagador" or "Baga'g Nawong!"
I remember an anecdote about a story of a father and son who, by profession, are all lawyers. One day, as the father was indisposed, he asked his son to represent him in court for a case which dragged on for so many years. Before going to court, the lawyer son reviewed the case and found out to his surprise that it was only a very simple case and wondered why it dragged on for so many years. There and then, in the succeeding court proceedings the son positively surrendered and affirmed to the honorable judge that he wanted the case terminated in favor of their opponent. Coming home and happy in the thought that he was able to close the case that took his father too long he was whistling his way to his father's bedside. But his father almost fainted in utter exasperation and disgust upon knowing it. And his father cried at the top of his voice: "How damned you!? Didn't you know I consider this case my number one source of livelihood!? Your three brothers and three sisters are now all professionals because I used this case to finance their studies! And you would not have been a lawyer like me if not for this case!!!" Caught in the middle of a deepening question of how to maintain his professional decency, the son can only do nothing but to give his father a glass of water to calm him down.
(Bug-os ang pasalamat sa KAHAYAG ngadto sa nagsulat niining paambit nga si JOHNNY LOVE. Nagtakuban siya sa pangalan, "D_BystandeR". Natawo siya sa Sugbo apan anaa na karon manimuyo sa Illinois sa tinipong nasod sa Amerika. Ang kusog nga koneksyon sa kasayuran pinaagi sa internet kanunayng naghaling sa iyang kadasig pagtuki sa mga nagbukalbukal nga hisgutanan dinhi sa atong nataran. Usa siya ka magsusulat nga gradwado sa kursong komersiyo padulong sa pagka accountant sa University of San Carlos kaniadtong tuig 1961. Nahimo siyang miyembro sa usa ka hugpong sa mga batan-ong magsusulat nga gitawag ug STUDENT PRESS. Nahimo usab siyang Associate Editor sa basahon USC-JPIAN sa tuig 1962-63. Magtatampo usab siya isip magsusulat sa nasudnong magasin, "Philippines Free Press" ug sa mga nag-unang peryodiko dinhi sa dakbayan sa Sugbo sa lunhaw pa ang iyang pangedaron. Nahimo siyang mamumuo sa usa ka pribadong kompaniya sa dakbayan sa Sugbo, ESCANO LINES, sulod sa napulo ug duha (12) ka tuig dayon niyang tapon ngadto sa NAPOCOR ug nahimong kawani sa kagamhanan sulod sa bayente dos (22) ka tuig. Niadtong tunga-tungang bahin sa tuig 2000, nilalin siya ngadto sa tinipong nasod sa Amerika ug sulod sa napulo (10) ka tuig, nagtrabaho siya sa buhatan sa kagamhanan sa nasod sama sa UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE (USPS). Karon sa pangedaron nga 67, gihuptan gihapon niya ang walay pagkutat nga kadasig ug walay busganan nga kaikag sa pagpaambit sa iyang nahuptang abilidad ug kabatid sa panulat. Dili niya mapugngan ang kaugalingon sa pagpaambit sa iyang mga hunahuna labi na kon molambigit kini ug hisgotanan nga makadani sa iyang mga mata.)
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